why do people still belive in evolutionism?

Question

if darwin was more educated on the matter he wouldn't have thought of it in the 1st place & he said he was wrong on his DEATHBED.

Answer 1

The same reason people, unlike yourself, still believe (spelling!) in getting an education. Creationism is for the weak of mind. You sir are a sheep, follow the herd and shut up.

Answer 2

I still believe in evolutionism. If there was't evolution, why would children be any different than their parents?

Maybe Charles Darwin did say that he was wrong on his deathbed. That does not mean much. Since he was dying, he might have not been thinking very clearly, as most other people do at death.

Answer 3

No he didn't. That's a myth.

Evolution is the best scientific explanation we have. Darwinism has been much revised since the Origin of Species appeared, but that doesn't make it wrong, that's just the way science works. It refines itself over time.

America is the only industrialized country where creationism still has any kind of sway. You tell a European, a Japanese or an Australian that 35 percent of the American public doesn't believe in evolution and they'll just give you that blank incredulous stare. It coincides with the existence of the religious right in the United States. The only reason they have of not believing in evolution is because it doesn't fit with the particular way in which they want to read the Bible - the literal way. Read Genesis again, with your mind, not with what you want to believe. - There are TWO accounts of creation in there: You can not read it literally. It was never written with the intent of getting people to read it literally.

Answer 4

For what has to be the fiftieth time: Darwin did not recant on his derathbed. This is a BS tale made by Lady Hope, a woman with no credibility on the subject.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hope.html
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v18/i1/darwin_recant.asp

Even the Answers in Gensis frauds agree that the story is a hoax. These attempts to fudge Darwin's story had already been exposed for what they were, first by his daughter Henrietta after they had been revived in 1922. "I was present at his deathbed," she wrote in the Christian for February 23, 1922. "Lady Hope was not present during his last illness, or any illness. I believe he never even saw her, but in any case she had no influence over him in any department of thought or belief. He never recanted any of his scientific views, either then or earlier. We think the story of his conversion was fabricated in the U.S.A. . . . The whole story has no foundation whatever."

Answer 5

Do creationists have so little evidence for their side that they feel the need to lie about things that don't even matter? Darwin wasn't a god - he just had a good idea. And the deathbed story was falsified by his wife 150 years ago. You're a little behind the times.

Answer 6

oh well i guess you have been reading that fiction called the bible again... I really am not qualified to respond to questions about the formation of our species or any other species of ANIMAL on this planet, however, I am sure that as the ANIMAL with the most evolved digits and brains we do have a resposibility to all the others ANIMALS that we live with and it seems to me that the fiction perpetrated on people like yourself that you are somehow superior to the rest is the saddest thing that the so called religious leaders have done to you...well that and the stories about how the universe was created. If you want to believe that it was all wished into being by some magical creature go ahead ..its ok..you have free will after all...or do you?

Answer 7

Either you're lying for your god, or you've been lied to.

Also: The reason you can't understand evolution is that YOU haven't been educated.

Claim CG001:
Darwin renounced evolution on his deathbed.
Source:
Enoch, H., 1916. Darwin's final recantation. Bombay Guardian, 25 March 1916, quoted at http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0724_Darwins_Final_Recant.html
Response:

1. The story of Darwin's recanting is not true. Shortly after Darwin's death, Lady Hope told a gathering that she had visited Darwin on his deathbed and that he had expressed regret over evolution and had accepted Christ. However, Darwin's daughter Henrietta, who was with him during his last days, said Lady Hope never visited during any of Darwin's illnesses, that Darwin probably never saw her at any time, and that he never recanted any of his scientific views (Clark 1984, 199; Yates 1994).

2. The story would be irrelevant even if true. The theory of evolution rests upon reams of evidence from many different sources, not upon the authority of any person or persons.

Links:
Greig, Russell, 1996. Did Darwin recant? Creation 18(1): 36-37. http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/1315.asp

Yates, Simon, 1994. The Lady Hope story: A widespread falsehood. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hope.html

Answer 8

Creationists often accuse people who believe in Evolution of lying, so why is it that Creationists insist on lying about how Darwin said he was wrong about Evolution on his deathbed?

Answer 9

Why does science confuse religious fundamentalists? Oh, wait I can't answer a question with a question. People believe in evolution because it is a scientfically, proveable, observable fact both from fossil evidence and the divergence of common species over time when isolated. Even in humans genetic selection is in part responsible for the build of Pacific Islanders and the once favorable trait of sickle cell anemia.

Answer 10

People believe it for several reasons: 1.--It's been drummed into them from so many sources for so long, especially scientific books. 2.--Peer pressure (e.g., if so-and-so believes in evolution it MUST be true!). 3.--The evidence for evolution SEEMS true, and well-organized. 4.--Religion took too long to answer against evolution, and now they seem silly and "unscientific."
Here are a couple of interesting--to me--related points: 1.--Influential evolutionist Richard Lewontin wrote that many scientists are willing to accept scientific claims that are against common sense "because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism." (Materialism, in this sense, refers to the theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality, that everything in the universe, including all life, came into existence without any supernatural intervention in the process.) Many scientists refuse even to consider the possibility of an intelligent Designer because, as Lewontin wrote, "we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."
2.--If you are to accept the teaching of macroevolution as true, you must believe that agnostic or atheistic scientists will not let their personal beliefs influence their interpretations of scientific findings. You must believe that mutations and natural selection produced all complex life-forms, despite the fact that a century of research, the study of billions of mutations, shows that mutations have NOT transformed even one properly defined species into something entirely new. You must believe that all creatures gradually evolved from a common ancestor, despite the FACT that the fossil record strongly indicates that the major kinds of plants and animals appeared ABRUPTLY and did not evolve into other kinds, even over aeons of time. Does that type of belief sound as though it is based on fact or on a myth?
Thank you for your time.

Answer 11

because they think it makes more sense... but i don't think it does. people think one thing is more practical than another, and stick with that rather than listen to any new facts to debate on the matter proving that evolutionism isn't true. they think all scientists believe in it, and scientists " know everything" so they go with that.... i don't know. i'm improvising.

they don't have enough faith in God to believe that it just is what it is, because they need some basic facts, they want more than " I am God you should trust me", they want proof.

People have been fighting about this for who knows how long. No one can find a stable answer, because one needs stable facts and proof and the other just needs faith.


many people insult each other for the ignorance of the other. people take this question very seriously because it's a question that involves living and dying.

and also, if we evolved from monkeys... why are there still monkeys?